{Unscripted} 2020
who it's for
platform engineers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, cloud cost managers, quality engineers
topics
gitops for infrastructure; declarative pipelines YAML; ML-driven canary verification; feature flag workflows; CI with test prioritization; Terraform Git-backed provisioning; cloud cost optimization and governance; pipeline security automation; continuous verification and observability; scaling SRE practices; continuous integration fundamentals; Quarkus Java runtime
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 Welcome Keynote - Simplifying Software Delivery | Jyoti Bansal | 23m |
Industry delivery remains costly and slow: a past startup ran 300 engineers with one DevOps per 10 at ~$4M and shipped monthly; a Fortune 500 example has 55… | ||
| Industry Executive Panel featuring | Sri Viswanath, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Priyanka Sharma, Armon Dadgar, Jason Warner, Jyoti Bansal | 44m |
Panel argues the real problem is rising complexity and tool sprawl — too much YAML, too many homegrown Heroku-like platforms, and a widening gap between devs… | ||
| Day 2 Keynote including Harness Platform Announcements | Jyoti Bansal | 39m |
Announces product launches and measurable results: Continuous Features beta for feature-flag workflows integrated into CI/CD with audit, rollout segmentation… | ||
| DevSecOps Panel "AppSec Would Never Catch Me" | Baruch Sadogursky, Milecia McGregor, Sebastian Daehne, Ravi Lachhman | 38m |
Panel argues that security gets solved by automating checks inside CI/CD rather than policing releases manually: start with npm audit or a dependency scanner… | ||
| Innovation Panel "Making the Most of DevOps Practices and Culture" | Rajsi Rana, Kandarp Desai, Christian Posta, Ravi Lachhman, Jayne Groll | 45m |
Panelists give concrete examples: Zoom migrates to Oracle Cloud overnight to meet demand, teachers run lessons over WhatsApp lessons in low-bandwidth regions… | ||
| Cloud Costs Panel "Lots of Reward Points" | Shelby Lewin, JP Eagleson, Tor Magnus Castberg, Corey Wagehoft, Alan Shimel | 40m |
Panelists describe concrete tactics: using Harness Continuous Efficiency alongside BigQuery/Data Studio, Cloudability and CloudHealth for hybrid visibility… | ||
| Open Source Panel "Solving for the Container and Cloud " | Tracy Ragan, JJ Asghar, Jeremy Davis, Tiffany Jachja | 46m |
Discussion shows how open source actually solves container and cloud friction by naming the tools and practices: Quarkus as a new Java runtime, Ortelius for… | ||
| You Can’t Stop the Music! Neither the Devops! | Etienne Schmieder | 25m |
A bank IT group runs a measurable DevOps transformation: a transversal center of excellence embeds DevOps integrators into teams, an automated software… | ||
| "GitOps for Infrastructure" | Andrey Budzar | 40m |
Demo shows an AWS account and an Amazon VPC created end-to-end by pull request: Git triggers a Terraform plan then an approval (console or Slack) and a… | ||
| From Hero to Zero Effort–Simplifying CD | Chris Cummings | 25m |
A migration story that trades handcrafted scripts for Harness, Terraform and GitHub Actions: moves from Bitbucket/TeamCity to GitHub + GitHub Actions… | ||
| "Self Advocacy–Tips and Tricks for Managing your Career in Tech" | Krystal Shields | 12m |
Emphasizes that employees drive their own careers through self-reflection, gap-closing and networking, and recommends concrete actions: build mentors, prepare… | ||
| "Building the Plane While It's Flying" | David Sudia | 28m |
A mid‑stage startup of ~100 people with ~35 engineers and 2.1 ops moves from Heroku to Kubernetes starting 2018, migrates the first app early 2019 and most… | ||
| "Hoodwinked by the Terrible Trivium" | Shlomo Bielak | 18m |
Argues that $25M of early failure taught why brilliant engineers create brittle, one-person processes and that $1.3T digital spend (IDC says $900B fails)… | ||
| "How We Fired Our Butlers: Drone CI at Scale" | Jim Sheldon, Brian Burnett | 31m |
Meltwater runs Drone as an internal service with 1,466 repositories, ~1,200 pipelines/day and about 222 active users, replacing Jenkins, Travis and Circle… | ||
| Incarceration to Software Engineers–Changing Lives Through Education & Second Chances | Jason Jones | 37m |
A nonprofit program called The Last Mile teaches incarcerated people to code with a yearlong curriculum (six months web dev fundamentals, six months… | ||
| Securing Your Web Application Pipeline From Intruders | Milecia McGregor | 29m |
Argues that security belongs early and often in CI/CD and shows concrete integrations: run OWASP ZAP and static analyzers (arachne, burp, sqlmap) in the build… | ||
| Sensory Friendly Monitoring–Keep the Noise Down | Quintessence Anx | 19m |
Monitoring setup advice that reduces interruption cost: shows that a brief interruption causes a 25-minute recovery loss, AP-style test performance drops by… | ||
| CD is Boring, Learn How We Ignored It With | Frank P Moley | 27m |
DataStax migrates from a brittle homegrown CD to Harness and keeps existing Jenkins builds, Helm charts (with one small chart-format tweak) and mono-repo… | ||
| IT Transformation Trends and Traps | Neetu Jain | 47m |
Describes building a Platform as a Service at USAA to accelerate “ship and learn,” backed by CI/CD pipelines, containers and Kubernetes, and tooling like… | ||
| CI/CD: Conscious Uncoupling | Bob Chen | 23m |
Splitting CI and CD into separate pipelines removes a single point of failure and lets CD start from the failure point without re-running unit tests and… | ||
| Getting the Best Out of Your Code Reviews | Mattia Tommasone | 31m |
Argues that code reviews find bugs and spread knowledge, demonstrates concrete practices: use linus’s law, automate checks with linters, static analysis, CI… | ||
| Scaling SRE at MailChimp: How We Did It | Bob Strecansky | 31m |
Mailchimp describes how an SRE team scales from 4 to 17 engineers while keeping focus on concrete practices: adopt four golden signals for latency, traffic… | ||
| Opinions are Like Pipelines | Bob Ritchie | 29m |
Argues that pipeline infighting wastes elite engineering time and advocates a pragmatic middle path: let expert teams incubate bespoke Jenkins/GitLab/Drone… | ||
| Manage Scaling, While Keeping Costs Under Control. Challenge Accepted. | Corey Wagehoft | 20m |
Relativity runs 17 clusters in 10 regions on Azure, manages 6,000 VMs and 8 PB of data, and moves everything into Kubernetes. Scaling pain points include heavy… | ||
| Taking Your Digital Transformation Journey to Innovation | Prakriti Koller | 26m |
Claims that culture change, not just tech, unlocks innovation and cites 80% of digital transformations fail unless five IT functions align. Offers concrete… | ||
| How to Build Your Digital Highway for Continuous Software Delivery | Michael Miloradovic | 18m |
Blueprint for a production pipeline that uses Harness to migrate a core banking app from a six month rollout to two weeks, raising release cadence from… | ||
| Soft Skills Get Hard Results | Scott Asai | 13m |
Argues that soft skills produce measurable returns, claiming micro managers cost companies more money than any other factor, citing Goleman stats that 90% of… | ||
| Continuous Integration 101 for Devs | Bryan Feuling | 31m |
Continuous Integration means merging at least once a day into a main/trunk with an automated CI server, artifact repository and pipelines that run unit… | ||
| QualityOps–Left Shift Customer Success With A Thriving Quality Engineering Ecosystem | Pushkala Pattabhiraman | 22m |
A quality-engineering platform evolves from unit-heavy tests to a flattened pyramid that treats accessibility, performance and security as first-order… | ||
| Cloud Cost Management Updates | Harish Doddala | 20m |
Harness announces Continuous Efficiency as a cloud cost product that correlates deployment and autoscaling events to spend, provides service‑level visibility… | ||
| Continuous Features Reveal & Overview | Harish Doddala | 24m |
Harness builds a feature flag platform called Continuous Features that decouples deployments from releases, supports client and server SDKs across SaaS and… | ||
| Next Gen Continuous Delivery Updates | Uri Scheiner | 24m |
Next‑gen Harness CD shows a drag‑and‑drop pipeline designer that builds a 3‑stage Kubernetes pipeline (QA → UAT → Prod) in under 15 minutes, with reusable… | ||
| Continuous Integration Enterprise Reveal & Overview | Uri Scheiner | 24m |
Harness CI Enterprise is a smart CI that uses ML models to correlate code changes, test history and test diffs to pick a prioritized subset of tests… | ||
| Continuous Verification Updates | Sid Choudhury | 21m |
Harness CV next generation expands verification from deployments to infrastructure by auto-capture from Jenkins GitLab Spinnaker and auto-discovery of… | ||
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